Okay. So making vanilla is really easy. Get some vanilla beans and pour some alcohol over it and boom- you have vanilla extract. However, remember in my last post when I talked about an obsession for creating the best? I spent the whole day researching vanilla. Besides realizing there is a serious lack of information about making vanilla extract safely on most blogs, I learned some really interesting facts about vanilla from the Nielsen-Massey company. The video below gives a short history about the vanilla bean that I found absolutely fascinating. For a more in-depth history, read Vanilla’s Origins.